Thousands of 'kidfluencers' – child stars on YouTube and Instagram who play, unbox toys, promote products and perform for the camera – are working and making money for their parents without any clear legal protection of their rights or earnings (The Guardian).

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Laws created to protect child actors are not regularly applied to family YouTubers and, as children under 13 aren't allowed to own YouTube and Instagram accounts, they also have no legal right to the money those accounts earn. There have also been instances of child abuse by adults exploiting the labour and bodies of young people in their care.

Antarctica's second-largest emperor penguin breeding ground has been abandoned following a 2016 sea ice breakup that drowned thousands of chicks (BBC News). There's evidence that many of the Halley Bay colony's breeding pairs – which numbered between 14,000 and 25,000 for decades – have left the increasingly fragile Brunt ice shelf to join another colony around 50km away at the Dawson-Lambton Glacier.

Australian researchers have found that cyclists are dehumanised in the minds of other road users, which may contribute to aggressive behaviour against them by drivers (Motherboard). In a study involving 442 people, non-cyclists rated the average cyclist as 45 per cent human, while even cyclists average cyclist as 70 per cent human.

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Moreno Bonaventura wanted to predict the likelihood of success for a startup, and to try and unlock the secrets of the mega-growth that separate Facebook, Google and Netflix from those that struggle (WIRED). They tried to discover what made some succeed while other companies flopped. The answer? It's who you know (and who the people you hire know), rather than necessarily what you know.

An Indian court has reversed a ruling that compelled Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores (TechCrunch). The social video app, created by China's ByteDance, was originally banned over concerns that it enabled pornography and exposed children to sexual predation. ByteDance says it has removed over 6 million videos created by Indian users in a content review.